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Application of Metabolic Flux Analysis to Plants

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Plant Metabolic Flux Analysis

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1090))

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This volume compiles a series of chapters that cover the major aspects of plant metabolic flux analysis, such as but not limited to labeling of plant material, acquisition of labeling data, mathematical modeling of metabolic network at the cell, tissue, and plant level. A short revue, including methodological points and applications of flux analysis to plants, is presented in this introductory chapter.

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Dieuaide-Noubhani, M., Alonso, A.P. (2014). Application of Metabolic Flux Analysis to Plants. In: Dieuaide-Noubhani, M., Alonso, A. (eds) Plant Metabolic Flux Analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1090. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-688-7_1

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